In the Penglai Palace, Shi Yan carried Xu Mian in and put her on the couch without making any sound. Xu Mian could not hear any sound, and she squinted her eyes out of curiosity, and saw Shi Yan staring at her sinisterly.

His eyes were so scary, and Xu Mian closed her eyes again, revealing that the dizziness was just a fake.

Suddenly, she heard him get up and leave. Xu Mian looked up and saw Shi Yan went straight to the bed, picked up the quilt, and carefully felt the mattress to see if it was dry.

Xu Mian was so scared that her eyes widened. Damn it, everything that happened before happened again.

Sure enough, Shi Yan touched a place, bang! He was so angry that he punched it hard.

He shouted, "Someone come!"

Xuelian ran in, her legs shaking with fear.

"Bring the sword!"

Xuelian went to the front hall to take down the gemstone long sword and presented it respectfully with both hands.

Shi Yan picked up the sword, pulled out the sword that could cut iron like mud, and slashed it fiercely on the bed, turning the bedsheets into rags flying all over the place.

After a few more sword strikes, he threw away the sword only when the bed frame collapsed with a loud noise.

All the palace servants in Penglai Palace had already knelt on the ground, trembling.

"Are you servants blind? You let the thieves come in so brazenly as if they were nowhere to be found?"

"Your Highness, please calm down."

Shi Yan said angrily, "Slap them all two hundred times!" He

then looked at Xuelian, "You are the one in charge. You can't escape the blame. The worst punishment is a hundred lashes!"

"Yes, Your Highness."

Xu Mian hurriedly got up from the couch when she heard it, "A Yan, please spare them."

Shi Yan walked up to her, his eyes filled with rage, his pupils turning red.

"Mian Mian, shouldn't I be punished?"

Xu Mian stood up and hugged his waist beside the couch, begging: "A Yan, I'm sorry, it's my fault." Shi

Yan shook his head and sneered, prying her hands apart, "What's your fault?"

"I, I shouldn't have recognized the wrong person."

The palace maids outside the palace knelt and slapped themselves, and the crisp sound of "Pa Pa Pa" came one after another.

Xuelian was taken to a bench and beaten with a board. She bit her handkerchief and dared not make a sound, for fear that Xu Mian would hear and feel sad.

Xu Mian climbed up and looked outside from the window beside the couch. The scene was horrible.

He ran to Shi Yan in three or two steps, "A Yan, one hundred boards, Xuelian will be beaten to death, please tell her not to beat her anymore, please."

His voice was choked and he cried out in anxiety.

Shi Yan, however, had a stern and untouchable look on his face, "I just want them to learn a lesson."

Xu Mian didn't know what to do. She cried and kissed Shi Yan, sobbing, "Is this enough? Ah Yan, I will never mistaken someone for the wrong person next time." Shi

Yan's eyes were red, "Mian Mian, I blamed myself for not being able to protect you in the past. Now that I have finally recovered my identity, why do you still let that man invade you?"

Two lines of tears fell. He pinched her shoulder and asked, "Mian Mian, tell me the truth, do you like him? Are you in love with him?"

They have been together for half a year, and it is possible that she has fallen in love with that man. This is Shi Yan's fear of loss.

"No, Ah Yan, I..."

"No? Or does loneliness not satisfy you? Can he make you happier? Is that right?"

He shed tears, his handsome face twisted with anger.

"No, Ah Yan, please stop hitting me."

Shi Yan let go of her and said violently, "They are blind, damn it! Don't say anything."

Xu Mian stopped begging her, got off the couch, knelt on the ground, stretched out her hand and slapped herself.

"What are you doing?!"

Shi Yan rushed over and grabbed her right hand, and Xu Mian slapped her face with her left hand.

He grabbed her left hand again.

"It's my fault, I should be punished, why is Your Highness blocking me?"

"I won't allow anyone to hurt you, including yourself."

Xu Mian was crying and heard the sound of water splashing outside the palace. Xuelian was knocked unconscious.

She stood up and wanted to run outside the palace, but Shi Yan carried her to the couch and pressed her under him.

He yelled, "What do you want from me?

If Xuelian dies, I won't live either!" Shi Yan grabbed her hand and hit him in the face, "Hit me harder!"

Xu Mian turned her face away, her neck full of tears.

Holding back her tears and biting her lips tightly, Shi Yan pried her chin open, "Let go!"

Covering her thin lips, Xu Mian held her breath and closed her mouth tightly.

Shi Yan picked her up anxiously and shouted outside: "Stop it. If you let the thief in again, I will not show mercy."

"Yes, Your Highness."

The palace maid's face was swollen badly. Xuelian was almost dead. She was carried to the bedroom, and Penglai Island became quiet instantly.

Shi Yan held Xu Mian's face, "Is it okay? Can you let go?"

Xu Mian burst into tears. Who made you look the same? I am so wronged.

Shi Yan hugged her tightly, stroked her back to comfort her, "Don't feel uncomfortable anymore." He

applied ice to her face and said caringly: "Does it hurt?"

Xu Mian nodded aggrievedly. She has always been delicate, and she has never been slapped in the face.

"It hurts... sob... sob..."

She whimpered for a long time before she stopped crying, "Didn't His Majesty ask you to go over?"

Shi Yan wiped her tears with a wet handkerchief, "I'll hold you for a while and go over later."

The two of them hugged each other tightly without saying anything.

In the Xuanzheng Hall, Shi Jun walked in, looking weak. The emperor saw that his arm was injured, got up from the throne, and said with concern: "There's blood, hurry up, summon the imperial physician to bandage Prince Jin."

"Did the prince do this?"

Prince Fu bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Your Highness met Prince Jin at the door on his way back to Penglai Hall, there must be a misunderstanding, so..."

The emperor realized that Shi Yan and Shi Jun fell in love with the same woman, and sighed in his heart that no one can escape the arrangement of fate.

The imperial physician came to see Shi Jun's wound, and the emperor bandaged it himself.

Shi Jun found that the emperor's excessive concern for him must be an illusion. He could have killed his brother cruelly, so how could he be soft on his nephew now? Since it was an act, he would act along.

Tears welled up in his eyes and he said, "Your Majesty is so good to Jun'er, and Jun'er is touched."

These words moved the emperor.

Later, Empress Xiao sent the emperor a nourishing soup, "Your Majesty, let me do it, you are clumsy."

She applied the medicine gently and skillfully, and bandaged it with a long silk cloth, "Jun'er, does it hurt?"

Shi Jun shook his head. At this moment, his eyes were wet and real, just like a happy child surrounded by the love of his parents.

Shi Yan, who came in at this time, was hurt by the scene in front of him. His father and mother were surrounding another person, with expressions of concern and love.

It was another kind of heartache of being robbed.

The emperor turned around, saw Shi Yan's cold face, and waved, "Yan'er, come here."

Queen Xiao saw her son coming, tied the cloth strip, and reminded, "Jun'er, don't let the wound touch water or use force these days."

"Thank you, aunt."

Shi Jun was humble and polite, which made Shi Yan look even more unruly.

Queen Xiao stood up and walked to his side, "Yan'er, is Mianmian okay?"

The fight between the prince and the King of Jin at the gate of Penglai Palace had spread throughout the palace.

Shi Yan glared at Shi Jun provocatively, "Don't worry, mother, Mianmian is fine."

The emperor pulled his hand, then pulled Shi Jun's, and put their hands together, "Yan'er, Jun'er, I hope you can be good brothers."

Shi Yan said, "Father, since the King of Jin has already been granted a fiefdom, I hope he will leave the capital immediately!"